Titanic submarine widow Christine Dawood relives moment she lost husband and son

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A grieving mom who lost her husband and son in Titanic sub disaster has shared her heartbreaking remaining moments with them.

Christine Dawood, 48, spoke of the tragedy as she remembers her husband Shahzada Dawood, 48, and son Suleman Dawood, 19, who could be turning 20 this Monday.

Last June, her adventurous relations set aboard the Titan submersible whose mission was to journey to 13,000 ft under the floor to discover the Titanic wreckage within the Atlantic Ocean.

However, simply 45 minutes into the voyage, catastrophe struck when the submersible lost contact with the floor ship, the Polar Prince, round 900 miles east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Four frantic days unfolded as a search and rescue mission tried to find the submersible.

But Ms Dawood’s worst fears have been confirmed when the US coast guard found the 5 crew members had died in a catastrophic implosion on 22 June.

The outstanding enterprise man and his son, who was finding out a Business diploma at Strathclyde University in Glasgow have been joined by French nationwide Paul-Henri Nargeolet and OceanGate Expeditions chief government Stockton Rush on the underwater expedition.

“The moment we knew they’d found debris and there were no survivors, Alina and I went on deck,” she advised the Daily Mail. “Until that moment we’d had hope. We took some cushions with us and just sat there looking out at the ocean. We were both crying.

“I turned to her and said: ‘I’m a widow now.’ She said: ‘Yes, and I’m a single child.’ Then we cried even more.”

Ms Dawood defined how she was alleged to go on the Titanic Submersible journey however after Covid delays, when her son Suleman turned 18 he was keen to hitch his father.

The day earlier than the doomed journey, Ms Dawood defined she was so sea-sick on the Polar Prince and had not been in a position to spend so much of time along with her household, however recalled her husband ‘glowing from excitement’.

Her son had determined to maintain himself entertained by fixing a Rubix Cube 3,700 metres under the ocean floor, the mom advised the paper.

Before dropping her husband of 20 years, Ms Dawood says they not often spent any time aside, apart from when he returned to his native Pakistan.

The couple shared two kids – Suleman and daughter Alina, 17.

The heartbroken mom spoke of the incomparable devastation of dropping a baby.

She described how she almost lost her son giving beginning to him throughout an emergency c-section 20 years in the past, however medics saved him.

Ms Dawood initially from Germany described her son, who would have turned 20 this Monday, as an previous soul who ‘made everyone feel special’.

To commemorate her son’s twentieth birthday she goes to blow-up balloons so that they rise to their glass atrium roof.

The mom remembered lengthy walks across the Surrey Hills with Suleman and their canine Stig, a Burmese mountain canine, who he adored.

Ms Dawood says regardless of what occurred, she wouldn’t have denied her daring son and husband the possibility to go on the journey, she stated if that they had returned the story would have been very totally different.